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the carolina watchman salisbury n c april 20 1882 vol xiii tsirb series no 27 the carolina watchman established in the year 1833 pbh tl \ vl ;: - i it w 2.bh0dbs browne pres't wm.c.-coart 8ecy a home coinpany^.eeking home patronage strom prompt fjiie literal term policies written on dwellings premiums payable one half cash and bal ance in twel ve uionl ii j allen br0wi-i afift 21:6m salisbury n c come at once john feick's celebeated grain cradles for sale at r r crawford & go's report of county superintendent of public instimictioii of rowan county t the honorable hoard of education of said county : | as the report of my work for the past month which i to-day make to you as required by sec 17 of the school law ' completes the record of my visitation of the public schools of this county for the past winter 1 think it not inappropriate to accompany it with a statement of my ; labors dining the past four mouths there have been in session dewing that i time eighty four (.->â– !) public schools i ' taught by ninety 90 teachers enrolling three thousand seven hundred and tliir j ! ty-two 3732 pupils with an average attendance of two thousand two hun dred forty-six 2246 all of these i have visited once many of them twice and in . one or two instances a third time making a total of one hundred and thirteen 113 visits occupying therein forty two 4i ; days of field service 1 have found the schools doing in the main as well as could reasonably . be ex pected considering the insufficiency of well qualified teachers and tho lack of properly equipped school buildings the great majority of the teachers are laboring conscientiously and faithfully ! and are to be praised for even the degree i of success which they have attained amidst so many obstacles the beneficial result of the teachers institute held here last summer are plainly to be seen and are everywhere felt and acknowledged by the teachers themselves especially is this manifested in their increased efficiency and success as com pared with the work of those who from various causes were prevented from at tending it and in this connection allow me to urge upon your body the wisdom and indeed the urgent necessity for the authorized appropriation for the insti tutes this year one of the most noted educators of our country recently said if 1 were to undertake the education of the children of the state as an individual enterprise with the school fund as thetixed price i would use one-tenth of it to train a body of competent teachers and with the other niuetenths as wages would ac complish more than the whole would do as now used in the payment of unprepar ed instructors not only make the nec essary appropriation but by your influ ence and presence aid in making it the most powerful lever in our educational machinery public opinion is fast con centrating on this truth that the teacher needs special training for his vocation jifsz as the mechanic the physician the lawyer the minister hut untrained specialists are by no means the only hindrances to success in our public schools in many cases our schools are so overcrowded that no teach er can produce satisfactory results sev eral report an enrollment of over seventy 70 pupils one of eighty-one and only one teacher in each school ; whilst in oth er districts the non-attendance of those actually enrolled is a serious injury some averaging only seven or eight pupils this is in a great degree owing to the present arrangement of the districts another difficulty is that of procuring books many apparently expecting to get their education from a blue back aud the testament occasionally with the testament alone another obstacle and it the explanation of the proceeding one is the lack of interest in popular educa tion on the part of many our people sadly need an awakening on this subject aud in order to start the ball 1 have du ring the winter made educational talksat night to the patrons of the schools and others in six of the townships viz mor gan litaker gold mill locke scotch irish and franklin it was my intention to have discussed our new school system in all of the townships but owing to the inclemency and uncertainty of the wiu tery weather i failed to complete the cir cuit these meetings have usually been well attended and owing to the hearty co-operation of some of our most promi nent citizens as hon j l gracber dr j g ramsay and others i trust some good has been accomplished in this direc tion our teachers association meeting monthly in different portions of the conn ; ty is also accomplishing much in this i line a report of the schools would be radi ! cally incomplete without some mention j of the condition of the school-houses they are usually constructed of logs i with the chinking and daubing to a large â€¢ extent gone unceiled even overhead | sometimes without windows aud when i supplied with them rarely can you find a sash with unbroken panes in one case with no door shutter the roof frequent ly leaky the floor open and the usual furniture hard undressed pine slabs with out backs and perhaps a writing bench school apparatus is practically unknown i i found one school taught iu an old to bacco barn two in dwelling houses and frequently in churches there are however many honorable exceptions to the above description and many of our committees are only waiting for the question of medistricting to be de cided to begin at once the much needed work of building redistrictrxg n this important question i have the ! following statistics to offer first there arc now in the county ninety-four i'4 school districts â€” forty-aeven 47 white forty st veil 47 colored â€” with a total school population of 6,168 of whom 4,."3.">1 are white and 1,807 are colored this would give an average of ( 3 nearly to each white district and jrf nearly to each colored district â€” at once a wide dif ference â€” hat in no instance do these av erages represent the facts in any single district un the contrary the districts vary from zero up to 1~>5 school popula tion iu the white districts there is one that reports only 2g there are six with an average of less than â€¢"$!> each while on the other there are thirty averaging over 100 each and sixteen with an average of over 116 pupils each all of them report ing over 100 in the above averages i have entirely omitted district no 27 salisbury a its enrollment of 455 would at once raise fthough unfairly the aver age in the above sixteen to over 138 pu pils each of the colored districts there is one re porting h9 school population six averag ing over 75 and on the other extreme thirty-three with a population of less than 20 twenty-five witli an average of less than 14 sixteen less thau 7 eleven less thau 4 and four with no children at jail thus you will at once perceive the very great discrepancy iu the present arrange ment of district lines which were estab i lished just thrirty five years ago and ! even then as may bo readily shown by j the minutes of the county superinten dents of public schools of rowan were quite unsatisfactory both to members of i the hoard and to the people the popn \ lation of the different districts at thai time ! varied from 33 to 119 of the compara tive size of these districts it may be not ; ed there is also very great difference be tween them as one oi two of thorn are , too small but usually they are entirely too large j in several instances they are from five to seven miles in length and sometimes only from one and a half to â– two miles iu breadth another objection : to some of them is the well-known fact that some of them are bisected by one or ! more of our rowan creeks which are no , toriously unmanageable at the season when our common schools usually arc ' taught as this honorable board has hitherto â– invariably refused to alter district lines ; various remedies have been tried but usu i ally have proven inefficient two school houses in the largo districts is the favorite '. panacea but not sttnpping to discuss the many practical difficulties which arise from ; having two schools and one committee it ; is usually the case that whilst the district i is too large for one school it is not large enough for two and as the two buildings are necessarily placed near the sides or ends of the district they not only make too short the distance between themselves but also between thorn and the house or houses in the adjoining districts again the plan has been tested of send ing from one district across the line into another where more convenient this is now very properly forbidden by law for among other reasons if you propose to disregard district lines why have any lines at all ! another argument why redistricting is now imperatively in order is that our new school law requires the county board to lay oft these districts having due regard to township lines sec 20 and as the present lines were run some twenty years before rowan had any townships it i evident that they naturally do not coincide again sec 21st of the law requires the districts for each race to be different in territory if necessary for the convenience of the parties concerned whilst no one will claim that the present boundaries of the colored race have now or ever have had any reference to their convenience the last and per haps the most potential reason that i will adduce is the fact that section c2 of the law requires a four months school in every district and if the funds be insufficient to sustain it for that time then a special tax must be levied for that purpose our school fund is now sufficient for that purpose if ; properly distributed but with the present ' district lines whilst several districts have money enough to run a six or seven months : school about one half of the ninety four will be compelled to call on you for a?sist ; ance and whilst it is urged with some show â– of reason that this measure will cost sorae j thing it is also true that the special tax for next winter must run up into the hundreds | of dollars and the total cost of redistrict ing need not exceed seventy-live dollars 75.00 only by this change can the large surplus in the crowded districts be utilized for the benefit of the smaller ones i have devoted thus a considerable por tion of my report to this subject as i deem it one of vital importanoc to the success of our schools in conclusion i think i may safely say that the educational outlook over our en tire state is favorable that the people are accepting the present law as an onward step long needed in our common school system aud that there has been more gener al interest taken in our schools this winter than ever before and it only remains for the true friends of popular educatian to foster and encourage this spirit until our good old state shall soon remove from her escutcheon that foul dark blot of illiteracy so long and unworthily tarnishing its lus tre permit me to close by quoting for rour consideration the strikingly forcible utt'.r-it e i gov crittendon in his recent messt/ge to the legislature of missouri that parsimony towards education is liberality towards crime and that only by improv ; ing and greatly elevating the standard of : our public schools can adequate results be derived therefrom ftespt submitted geo tc mcxkill co supt pub ins of rowan april 3rd 1882 ' t u m how a note of llonry clay's was paid mr john went worth in a lecture on i henry clay in chicago last week told i the following story i mr clay had a large and expensive family and keenly felt his poverty while he lost no opportunity of expressing his gratitude to friends known and unknown for all kinds of favors ' the day upon winch mr webster made his celebrated speech in march 1650 he was highly eulogizing it at din ; ner when some one asked him if he did ! not think mr webster's influence had , been greatly impaired by his allowing certain wealthy men in massachusetts to settle annuity upon him for abandoning his practice in the courts so as to devote [ more time to public affairs mr clay j responded : in view of the mariner in which my , note was paid at a bank in kentucky i ; do not think 1 ought to speak upon that subject with difficulty i had raised the money to pay the interest when i went ' to the bank to ask a renewal the cash 1 ier told me i had no note there i asked him what hud become of it and said : he was instructed to answer uo ques \ tions and never have i been able to find out who paid it but turning to ''â– judge conrad of new orleans he said : judge 1 always supposed you had ! something to do with that matter to which he responded : whether i or any one else had any ' thing to do ivitli the matter you will never know j mr clay then s;iid : in view of my many opponents 1 am 1 as thankful for the secrecy as the money but when i am free from public life i am going to insist upon knowing who were such benefactors when some one raid : mr clay your friends will never let you be free from public life in that vi<-w gentlemen said he bear i witness to my inexpressible gratitude to â– my friends not only for their favor but ' for their manner of bestowing it adding : that there was but one unpleasant thing about it â€” that it was the only present he had ever received that he could not di vide with his friend here judge con rad observed : that need not trouble yon as you had liberally divided the proceeds before you gave t lie note you are right says clay the note was triucipally given to take up the pa per of friends which 1 had endorsed a circus crowd combed down ciicns people are always looked upon us a rough set and so they generally are j they give trouble to the hotels rail roads and everything else that is so un fortunate as to have anything to do with them the crowd that was here last friday left that night for salisbury they bought some second class tickets and took seats in the first elass.car capt juo dodsoii the conductor informed the head man who presented the tick ten that he was iu the wrong car and must either pay additional tare or move into the second class coach at this the cir cus man said there's just fifteen of usiu here and if you can put us out why do it lie may been playing this game successfully on other roads but lie struck the wrong procession whan he tackled dodson he started to rise from his seat when dodsou beut him down over tho top 1 of the eat until his backbone cracked ! another of the crowd jumped at dodson j and was knocked over three seats by thiii time the whole crown had got around the conductor aud the iirakemen baggage and express men had also come to his re lief in less thau five minutes they had the whole circus crowd bound hand and i foot so to speak when the train reach ; ed the coal bin where it stops jive minutes ; dodson shot the last one of them out of ! the car but during the live minutes they begged so hard to be let back on that : dodson finally agreed to take them n to salisbury provided that they take the second class car sit three iu a seat not utter a word and not spit on the floor â– to this they consented and getting the â€¢ lii'teen into five steals dodson et a i negro brakeman to watch them and see j that they did not violate their contract and they didn't people who looked in 1 to ste them agreed that it was the quitest â– looking set of circus men they had ever i seen â€” concord una the bill of exceptions taken in the case of charles j guiteau and signed by judge cox of the criminal court makes a pamphlet of thirty-nine i pages there are thirty-two excep ,; tions as to matters occurring up to the ! time when the case was given to the jury and exceptions also to the rul ; ings of the court denying a new trial i and overruling the motion in arrest of judgment an important decision on equal kates baltimore sun the decision f judge baxter render ed recently iu the united states circuit court in ohio in a suit brought against the pennsylvania railroad on account of a discrimination in freight charges on coal between salineville and cleveland will prove of considerable interest to both railroads and to their customers the charges between the points named were graded according to the amount shipped the large shippers obtaining low er rates than small ones the courts held this to be illegal it held also that a shipper discriminated against might eith er compel the company to carry his freight at the lowest rates or might pay the nite demanded b the railroad com pany and afterwards recover by suit the difference between this and the proper rate this decision goes unusually far it not only denies to railroads as common carriers the right to make a difference in price in favor of large quantities of freight the right by which private corporations are privileged to charge more for large sales than small ones but it pronounces the contract between a railroad company and a shipper not binding and final upon the latter in case of hardship because having no other means of transportation ! the shipper is helpless and not a free i agent in contracting reasonable as this j may seem at first sight the courts have j generally held differently judge baxter used the following language if a railroad corporation could with impunity carry the same class of freight over the same road and between the same points for one man or class of men i at a less rate thau they exacted from other aud competing interests if they , could lawfully require one man to pay fifteen cents per bushel for the transpor tation of wheat from cleveland to new | york while they did the same service for another and rival merchant for tcu cents or bring other merchandise for certain favorite friends and refuse to carry for others they could make and unmake the fortunes of whomsoever they chose the judges decision will doubtless be : appealed from and on the appeal receive the full consideration to which the im , portance of tho interests involved >â– : tifc ' les it what is equality of rates la it i to be literally construed as in judge bnx i tor's decision or is it subject to certain limitations and refinements ? kide iu a balloon a party belonging to coup's circus j now working their way back to their ; homes in the north stopped in town j last friday and put up their side show j tents in the vacant lot in rear of the suit office they had immense ! pictures of the long haired women the j tire eating man tremendous snakes etc i and it looked every iuch like old circus j times the news spread rapidly aud by i noon a thousand people were roosting waiting for the chief attraction : which was to be a balloon ascension i about 4 o'clock the man bad everything { ready the ropes were cut aud the bal ' loon darted up with the daring fool hang ing by his toes to a cross bar he went on tlie average estimate a quarter of a mile high when the balloon took a west wardly direction and began coming down like a rock it fell in a tree in the lot of mr si harris on depot street the aero naut finding it falling too fast gave ajump when within twenty feet of the greund and got badly shaken up to say nothing of a sprained thigh the tree had ro be cut away to g*t the balloon out people living in the country at a dictance of eight miles reported having seen it it wan n good show and everybody were cx â– cited and pleased concord sun s dogs supposed to be mad â€” mr saw pettus in the third ward yesterday shot four doge said to have been mad on of them being his own the rest being killed by request of the owners char obser ver new york republicans were star ! tied a few days since at the result of a special election in the 18th senato rial district of that state it was an ; election to fill the place of senator j wagner a republican who was kill ; ed in the recent disastrous railroad collision at spuyton teyful the ' 18th is a strong republican district but the democratic nominee was elected over his stalwart opponent to i the pleasant surprise of the democra â€¢ cy north state if the poets had common sense they would spare longfellow in their ver ses it is bad enough to lose the 1 man without having bad rhymes written about him it is worth remembering tliat nolr lv en joys the nicest snirroundingsifin bad hi alth there are mserabte people about to-day ' with one foot in the grave when a bottle of j parker's ginger tonic would do them more â– ' u-ood than all the doctors and medicines j they have ever tried sec adv ocio novlo happiness and its pursuit happiness is the great desideratum of the human heart it is the glori ous el dorado land toward which i every prow is pointed ; the elysium j that bends its bow glowing with pro mise above its fields oi gold it awakens hope enkindles ambition begets enthusiasm and incites to strug gle indeed there is no faculty vest ed in men that does not furnish its quota in aid of the supreme desire to reach it3 wealth and rest amid its sweets every method has been tried ; every phase of effort has been employ ed each individual has hisbwn theory and attempts his own course that which ha3 seemed to some the surest road to success has been regarded by others as the most certain passage to defeat and alas the truth is too manifest to admit of contradiction that the failures are vastly in the ma jority for by multitudes the shadow has been mistaken for the substance the dross for the gold and the glit tering tinsel of the empty casket for the sparkle of the precious gem the universality of this desire is in itself sufficient evidence that man in his best estate is an enormouse im perfection and fails to fill the place for which he was designed there is an absence of harmony in his condi tions or between them and himself his domestic social aud business relations being thus partially or whol j ly at discord produce the friction that the world calls sadness pain grief agony despair madness to escape from these is to be happy these arc j his inheritance their germs were scattered through his being at the pe riod of incipient life happiness is not an inheritance it is an acquire ment let no one cavil at this statement ample argument for its support is within easy reach of an acquiring mind it is not enough to present the experience of childhood or the limited joys â€” limited both in dura tion and degree â€” of late year as an objection they are but draughts from uncertain streams true happi ness comes not from such a source we must ascend to higher ground if we would find its pure exha listless foun tain unaided humanity grovels its ambitions its enterprises have a down ward tendency it has no inherent power to resuscitate that which is dy ing ibucii less to revivify tliiit which lias become entirely inert there is victory equivalent lo the exertions mailo to secure it in time or in eterni ty for him who stands alone death conquers everything but god in order to a dearer and perhaps more forcible showing of these asser tions k j t us glance at some of the ex amples history lias furnished for our guide cyrus the persian pursued the course he voluntarily choose he who in childhood was as fair as the flower in youth the idol of the court and in young manhood the pride of realm forsook the sweet restraints of noble qualities and plunged into blood but when he had blended two empires into one â€” when he had broken and bound lydia as a captive at his feet â€” when lie had humbled great babylon and given her nobles to the sword he found that he had not approximated the prize still un daunted and hopeful he rushed among the barbarians of the north to obtain that which his previous conquests had denied him but he met instead a conqueror and a grave a sythian queen dashed a stream of blood down the ncek of his headless carcass as she exclaimed â€” drink insatiable monster until your murderous thirst is satisfied croesus believed he had secured the priceless boon when he asked the wise solon to name the happiest man he had ever seen i>ut the philosopher instead of deciding in favor of his ' questioner as he was expected to do declared that he could not regard a ; life as truly happy until he beheld its ! close the personal experience of only a few shoi t years subsequent con \ viuced this great lydian king of the . correctness of the reply he found j though his name stood â€” and stands , to-day â€” as the synonym to untold wealth ; though pactolus washed its trotden treasures into his coffers tho the roil of empire bad leon swayed according to his will and uwugh friendly powers bad honored hfm with alliance that he bliss of which he had boasted was but the glory cf a winter's suu that was bcod tu scg in cloud the curtain of an awful night alexander labored for th : s prize in bis eager search to find it ho hur ried up and down the earth until the planet trembled beneath the trend of liis attending hosts all that wealth could furnish whs his all that victo ry could achieve was his all that sensual appetite could appropriate was devoured but what did all this avail though the world of men sub mitted to his conquering sword ho was still unsatisfied and wept in the midst of bacchanalian revelries be cause there were no more worlds to conquer he died as the beast dies his sun went down in blackest gloom before the zenith was attained xapoleon bonaparte imagined as he planted the guns of france before rebellious toulon/that he beheld in the not distant future this jewel of happiness directed by a genius which challenged the world's admira tion â€” impelled by a will that beat down or thrust aside every impedi ment he marshalled all his powers to carve a pathway to the goal thrones were demolished and crowns crushed beneath his raj-id tread dynasties vanished at his ap proach a continent's political geo graphy was the subject of constant mutation whom he would he ex alted â€” whom he would he abase â€” yet the glorious prize for which ho struggled at lodi arcola marenzo and austerlitz was substituted by i phantasy at moscow â€” an apparition at waterloo and a spectre at saint helena a single picture more and al though its fields be less sanguinary and its streams comparatively pure we shall find them shaded by a cloud ed sky through which the suu of joy but seldom breaks abdcrshman 111 one of the moorish kings of spain presided over the destinies of tho realm for fifty consecutive years lie was a noble humane justice-loving prince aud was styled the defender of the i'aitli of god so sagacious was his administration of state affairs that his reign received the appellation of the golden age of the moorish em pire but was he happy ? who would not answer in the affirmative while considering his noble qualities uf head and heart supplemented by circumstances so auspicious and encouraging listen he tells his own story : i have reigned fifty years i have carefully noted the history of each day those years include s:nd now at the end after an accurate examination of the entire time 1 fund but four teen days during which i was free from vexation and trouble let us pause here enough has been demonstrated jf after these sever al statements made from a philosoph ical standpoint â€” after these truthful portrayals from history that have been thus briefly rendered the question is asked in what then does true hap piness consist and where is its source we can only substantially repeat as sertions previously expressed and answer that it is not a spasmodic burst of enthusiasm nor a sudden exulta tion springing from a desire met or the substance of a hope realized ; nor delight temporarily secured through a pleasing novelty ; nor the resnlt of comfortable exterior circumstances nor yet the joy awakened through tho love of cherished friends though in this we find perhaps its nearestsemb iance â€” happiness in brief is the certain result of strict conformity to the will of god as furnished through his works and word its author and sup ply is the same great goad and wise being who made the human sou aud gave it its capacity to enjoy lhe path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day the southern methodists hold their general conference at nashville teu nessee in may next it meets every four years and the session lasts g n orally fur one month ifpmelbir the dead i f mu.n uivi is tombs great reduction i the pricks of marble monuments and grave-stones of every description 1 cordially invite the public generally to an inspection of m lock and work i feel justilied in iisseitiu thai my past experience under first-class woikinen in all the newest and modern styles and that tlic workmanship is equal to any of the best in the country i do not sav that my work is superior to all otliers l am reasonable will noi exaggerate in or der to accomplish a salt my endeavor is to please and givo each cnstuuiei the val ue of every dollar fl:e leave with me prices 35 to 50 per cent cheaper than eve offend in this town before call at once or send for trice lisi and de signs satisfacl ion guai ant'd or no charge the erection oi marble is the last work of respect which we pay lo the memory of depai ted friends john s hutchinson salisbury n ('.. nov i let blackmer am henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c janaar22 1879 â€” tt tijie table western n c railroad takes effect sundaj juij it issi ai 4.15 p m i'assesgeil thais akluvi leave stations akkivk utatb l isoa.ui balldburx 4 â€¢.,,-, m uqsa.ni i creek 334 1 30 1 , 3os Â»Â« si itesville 2 42 uo catawba i 1 -: ton 12 a 41 co 4 525 it s03 a t.o a.m 7 it iu 6 27 1j 607 f - 515 945 'â– 4i5p.a freight 7 7.1 v ak1uvk i.kavk stations akkivk leatk ... ! 1 " ajl:salisburj 5 00 p.m .; : j 4 0 00 a.m i'j'htrd ure t 3 4t 6 ' 2 iklmwood 315 6 56 243 ' 5c catawba 1 34 o m j a 12 :', 9 10 er iia i)9 1 â€¢ ihckorj 111 31 m ]' '' 0 i imorganton ; : 40 j - â€¢â– 'â€¢- *>'â€¢; glen alpine 9 06 jj5 j ibrldi vvuier - it ,'â€¢ ! jmati 11 ; ij it igw fort i 6 13 cm a.m henrj . :â€¢ i ! 1 i 5 50 i b50 p.ji.|t:oopi r's : 4 i â€¢>.Â« i , .,., â€¢"â€¢*"â€¢ â– "' 4 00a.3 : ikreu li bj 1 id j rundailj sundo sexcei li d a e andrews con eupi

the carolina watchman salisbury n c april 20 1882 vol xiii tsirb series no 27 the carolina watchman established in the year 1833 pbh tl \ vl ;: - i it w 2.bh0dbs browne pres't wm.c.-coart 8ecy a home coinpany^.eeking home patronage strom prompt fjiie literal term policies written on dwellings premiums payable one half cash and bal ance in twel ve uionl ii j allen br0wi-i afift 21:6m salisbury n c come at once john feick's celebeated grain cradles for sale at r r crawford & go's report of county superintendent of public instimictioii of rowan county t the honorable hoard of education of said county : | as the report of my work for the past month which i to-day make to you as required by sec 17 of the school law ' completes the record of my visitation of the public schools of this county for the past winter 1 think it not inappropriate to accompany it with a statement of my ; labors dining the past four mouths there have been in session dewing that i time eighty four (.->â– !) public schools i ' taught by ninety 90 teachers enrolling three thousand seven hundred and tliir j ! ty-two 3732 pupils with an average attendance of two thousand two hun dred forty-six 2246 all of these i have visited once many of them twice and in . one or two instances a third time making a total of one hundred and thirteen 113 visits occupying therein forty two 4i ; days of field service 1 have found the schools doing in the main as well as could reasonably . be ex pected considering the insufficiency of well qualified teachers and tho lack of properly equipped school buildings the great majority of the teachers are laboring conscientiously and faithfully ! and are to be praised for even the degree i of success which they have attained amidst so many obstacles the beneficial result of the teachers institute held here last summer are plainly to be seen and are everywhere felt and acknowledged by the teachers themselves especially is this manifested in their increased efficiency and success as com pared with the work of those who from various causes were prevented from at tending it and in this connection allow me to urge upon your body the wisdom and indeed the urgent necessity for the authorized appropriation for the insti tutes this year one of the most noted educators of our country recently said if 1 were to undertake the education of the children of the state as an individual enterprise with the school fund as thetixed price i would use one-tenth of it to train a body of competent teachers and with the other niuetenths as wages would ac complish more than the whole would do as now used in the payment of unprepar ed instructors not only make the nec essary appropriation but by your influ ence and presence aid in making it the most powerful lever in our educational machinery public opinion is fast con centrating on this truth that the teacher needs special training for his vocation jifsz as the mechanic the physician the lawyer the minister hut untrained specialists are by no means the only hindrances to success in our public schools in many cases our schools are so overcrowded that no teach er can produce satisfactory results sev eral report an enrollment of over seventy 70 pupils one of eighty-one and only one teacher in each school ; whilst in oth er districts the non-attendance of those actually enrolled is a serious injury some averaging only seven or eight pupils this is in a great degree owing to the present arrangement of the districts another difficulty is that of procuring books many apparently expecting to get their education from a blue back aud the testament occasionally with the testament alone another obstacle and it the explanation of the proceeding one is the lack of interest in popular educa tion on the part of many our people sadly need an awakening on this subject aud in order to start the ball 1 have du ring the winter made educational talksat night to the patrons of the schools and others in six of the townships viz mor gan litaker gold mill locke scotch irish and franklin it was my intention to have discussed our new school system in all of the townships but owing to the inclemency and uncertainty of the wiu tery weather i failed to complete the cir cuit these meetings have usually been well attended and owing to the hearty co-operation of some of our most promi nent citizens as hon j l gracber dr j g ramsay and others i trust some good has been accomplished in this direc tion our teachers association meeting monthly in different portions of the conn ; ty is also accomplishing much in this i line a report of the schools would be radi ! cally incomplete without some mention j of the condition of the school-houses they are usually constructed of logs i with the chinking and daubing to a large â€¢ extent gone unceiled even overhead | sometimes without windows aud when i supplied with them rarely can you find a sash with unbroken panes in one case with no door shutter the roof frequent ly leaky the floor open and the usual furniture hard undressed pine slabs with out backs and perhaps a writing bench school apparatus is practically unknown i i found one school taught iu an old to bacco barn two in dwelling houses and frequently in churches there are however many honorable exceptions to the above description and many of our committees are only waiting for the question of medistricting to be de cided to begin at once the much needed work of building redistrictrxg n this important question i have the ! following statistics to offer first there arc now in the county ninety-four i'4 school districts â€” forty-aeven 47 white forty st veil 47 colored â€” with a total school population of 6,168 of whom 4,."3.">1 are white and 1,807 are colored this would give an average of ( 3 nearly to each white district and jrf nearly to each colored district â€” at once a wide dif ference â€” hat in no instance do these av erages represent the facts in any single district un the contrary the districts vary from zero up to 1~>5 school popula tion iu the white districts there is one that reports only 2g there are six with an average of less than â€¢"$!> each while on the other there are thirty averaging over 100 each and sixteen with an average of over 116 pupils each all of them report ing over 100 in the above averages i have entirely omitted district no 27 salisbury a its enrollment of 455 would at once raise fthough unfairly the aver age in the above sixteen to over 138 pu pils each of the colored districts there is one re porting h9 school population six averag ing over 75 and on the other extreme thirty-three with a population of less than 20 twenty-five witli an average of less than 14 sixteen less thau 7 eleven less thau 4 and four with no children at jail thus you will at once perceive the very great discrepancy iu the present arrange ment of district lines which were estab i lished just thrirty five years ago and ! even then as may bo readily shown by j the minutes of the county superinten dents of public schools of rowan were quite unsatisfactory both to members of i the hoard and to the people the popn \ lation of the different districts at thai time ! varied from 33 to 119 of the compara tive size of these districts it may be not ; ed there is also very great difference be tween them as one oi two of thorn are , too small but usually they are entirely too large j in several instances they are from five to seven miles in length and sometimes only from one and a half to â– two miles iu breadth another objection : to some of them is the well-known fact that some of them are bisected by one or ! more of our rowan creeks which are no , toriously unmanageable at the season when our common schools usually arc ' taught as this honorable board has hitherto â– invariably refused to alter district lines ; various remedies have been tried but usu i ally have proven inefficient two school houses in the largo districts is the favorite '. panacea but not sttnpping to discuss the many practical difficulties which arise from ; having two schools and one committee it ; is usually the case that whilst the district i is too large for one school it is not large enough for two and as the two buildings are necessarily placed near the sides or ends of the district they not only make too short the distance between themselves but also between thorn and the house or houses in the adjoining districts again the plan has been tested of send ing from one district across the line into another where more convenient this is now very properly forbidden by law for among other reasons if you propose to disregard district lines why have any lines at all ! another argument why redistricting is now imperatively in order is that our new school law requires the county board to lay oft these districts having due regard to township lines sec 20 and as the present lines were run some twenty years before rowan had any townships it i evident that they naturally do not coincide again sec 21st of the law requires the districts for each race to be different in territory if necessary for the convenience of the parties concerned whilst no one will claim that the present boundaries of the colored race have now or ever have had any reference to their convenience the last and per haps the most potential reason that i will adduce is the fact that section c2 of the law requires a four months school in every district and if the funds be insufficient to sustain it for that time then a special tax must be levied for that purpose our school fund is now sufficient for that purpose if ; properly distributed but with the present ' district lines whilst several districts have money enough to run a six or seven months : school about one half of the ninety four will be compelled to call on you for a?sist ; ance and whilst it is urged with some show â– of reason that this measure will cost sorae j thing it is also true that the special tax for next winter must run up into the hundreds | of dollars and the total cost of redistrict ing need not exceed seventy-live dollars 75.00 only by this change can the large surplus in the crowded districts be utilized for the benefit of the smaller ones i have devoted thus a considerable por tion of my report to this subject as i deem it one of vital importanoc to the success of our schools in conclusion i think i may safely say that the educational outlook over our en tire state is favorable that the people are accepting the present law as an onward step long needed in our common school system aud that there has been more gener al interest taken in our schools this winter than ever before and it only remains for the true friends of popular educatian to foster and encourage this spirit until our good old state shall soon remove from her escutcheon that foul dark blot of illiteracy so long and unworthily tarnishing its lus tre permit me to close by quoting for rour consideration the strikingly forcible utt'.r-it e i gov crittendon in his recent messt/ge to the legislature of missouri that parsimony towards education is liberality towards crime and that only by improv ; ing and greatly elevating the standard of : our public schools can adequate results be derived therefrom ftespt submitted geo tc mcxkill co supt pub ins of rowan april 3rd 1882 ' t u m how a note of llonry clay's was paid mr john went worth in a lecture on i henry clay in chicago last week told i the following story i mr clay had a large and expensive family and keenly felt his poverty while he lost no opportunity of expressing his gratitude to friends known and unknown for all kinds of favors ' the day upon winch mr webster made his celebrated speech in march 1650 he was highly eulogizing it at din ; ner when some one asked him if he did ! not think mr webster's influence had , been greatly impaired by his allowing certain wealthy men in massachusetts to settle annuity upon him for abandoning his practice in the courts so as to devote [ more time to public affairs mr clay j responded : in view of the mariner in which my , note was paid at a bank in kentucky i ; do not think 1 ought to speak upon that subject with difficulty i had raised the money to pay the interest when i went ' to the bank to ask a renewal the cash 1 ier told me i had no note there i asked him what hud become of it and said : he was instructed to answer uo ques \ tions and never have i been able to find out who paid it but turning to ''â– judge conrad of new orleans he said : judge 1 always supposed you had ! something to do with that matter to which he responded : whether i or any one else had any ' thing to do ivitli the matter you will never know j mr clay then s;iid : in view of my many opponents 1 am 1 as thankful for the secrecy as the money but when i am free from public life i am going to insist upon knowing who were such benefactors when some one raid : mr clay your friends will never let you be free from public life in that viâ– : tifc ' les it what is equality of rates la it i to be literally construed as in judge bnx i tor's decision or is it subject to certain limitations and refinements ? kide iu a balloon a party belonging to coup's circus j now working their way back to their ; homes in the north stopped in town j last friday and put up their side show j tents in the vacant lot in rear of the suit office they had immense ! pictures of the long haired women the j tire eating man tremendous snakes etc i and it looked every iuch like old circus j times the news spread rapidly aud by i noon a thousand people were roosting waiting for the chief attraction : which was to be a balloon ascension i about 4 o'clock the man bad everything { ready the ropes were cut aud the bal ' loon darted up with the daring fool hang ing by his toes to a cross bar he went on tlie average estimate a quarter of a mile high when the balloon took a west wardly direction and began coming down like a rock it fell in a tree in the lot of mr si harris on depot street the aero naut finding it falling too fast gave ajump when within twenty feet of the greund and got badly shaken up to say nothing of a sprained thigh the tree had ro be cut away to g*t the balloon out people living in the country at a dictance of eight miles reported having seen it it wan n good show and everybody were cx â– cited and pleased concord sun s dogs supposed to be mad â€” mr saw pettus in the third ward yesterday shot four doge said to have been mad on of them being his own the rest being killed by request of the owners char obser ver new york republicans were star ! tied a few days since at the result of a special election in the 18th senato rial district of that state it was an ; election to fill the place of senator j wagner a republican who was kill ; ed in the recent disastrous railroad collision at spuyton teyful the ' 18th is a strong republican district but the democratic nominee was elected over his stalwart opponent to i the pleasant surprise of the democra â€¢ cy north state if the poets had common sense they would spare longfellow in their ver ses it is bad enough to lose the 1 man without having bad rhymes written about him it is worth remembering tliat nolr lv en joys the nicest snirroundingsifin bad hi alth there are mserabte people about to-day ' with one foot in the grave when a bottle of j parker's ginger tonic would do them more â– ' u-ood than all the doctors and medicines j they have ever tried sec adv ocio novlo happiness and its pursuit happiness is the great desideratum of the human heart it is the glori ous el dorado land toward which i every prow is pointed ; the elysium j that bends its bow glowing with pro mise above its fields oi gold it awakens hope enkindles ambition begets enthusiasm and incites to strug gle indeed there is no faculty vest ed in men that does not furnish its quota in aid of the supreme desire to reach it3 wealth and rest amid its sweets every method has been tried ; every phase of effort has been employ ed each individual has hisbwn theory and attempts his own course that which ha3 seemed to some the surest road to success has been regarded by others as the most certain passage to defeat and alas the truth is too manifest to admit of contradiction that the failures are vastly in the ma jority for by multitudes the shadow has been mistaken for the substance the dross for the gold and the glit tering tinsel of the empty casket for the sparkle of the precious gem the universality of this desire is in itself sufficient evidence that man in his best estate is an enormouse im perfection and fails to fill the place for which he was designed there is an absence of harmony in his condi tions or between them and himself his domestic social aud business relations being thus partially or whol j ly at discord produce the friction that the world calls sadness pain grief agony despair madness to escape from these is to be happy these arc j his inheritance their germs were scattered through his being at the pe riod of incipient life happiness is not an inheritance it is an acquire ment let no one cavil at this statement ample argument for its support is within easy reach of an acquiring mind it is not enough to present the experience of childhood or the limited joys â€” limited both in dura tion and degree â€” of late year as an objection they are but draughts from uncertain streams true happi ness comes not from such a source we must ascend to higher ground if we would find its pure exha listless foun tain unaided humanity grovels its ambitions its enterprises have a down ward tendency it has no inherent power to resuscitate that which is dy ing ibucii less to revivify tliiit which lias become entirely inert there is victory equivalent lo the exertions mailo to secure it in time or in eterni ty for him who stands alone death conquers everything but god in order to a dearer and perhaps more forcible showing of these asser tions k j t us glance at some of the ex amples history lias furnished for our guide cyrus the persian pursued the course he voluntarily choose he who in childhood was as fair as the flower in youth the idol of the court and in young manhood the pride of realm forsook the sweet restraints of noble qualities and plunged into blood but when he had blended two empires into one â€” when he had broken and bound lydia as a captive at his feet â€” when lie had humbled great babylon and given her nobles to the sword he found that he had not approximated the prize still un daunted and hopeful he rushed among the barbarians of the north to obtain that which his previous conquests had denied him but he met instead a conqueror and a grave a sythian queen dashed a stream of blood down the ncek of his headless carcass as she exclaimed â€” drink insatiable monster until your murderous thirst is satisfied croesus believed he had secured the priceless boon when he asked the wise solon to name the happiest man he had ever seen i>ut the philosopher instead of deciding in favor of his ' questioner as he was expected to do declared that he could not regard a ; life as truly happy until he beheld its ! close the personal experience of only a few shoi t years subsequent con \ viuced this great lydian king of the . correctness of the reply he found j though his name stood â€” and stands , to-day â€” as the synonym to untold wealth ; though pactolus washed its trotden treasures into his coffers tho the roil of empire bad leon swayed according to his will and uwugh friendly powers bad honored hfm with alliance that he bliss of which he had boasted was but the glory cf a winter's suu that was bcod tu scg in cloud the curtain of an awful night alexander labored for th : s prize in bis eager search to find it ho hur ried up and down the earth until the planet trembled beneath the trend of liis attending hosts all that wealth could furnish whs his all that victo ry could achieve was his all that sensual appetite could appropriate was devoured but what did all this avail though the world of men sub mitted to his conquering sword ho was still unsatisfied and wept in the midst of bacchanalian revelries be cause there were no more worlds to conquer he died as the beast dies his sun went down in blackest gloom before the zenith was attained xapoleon bonaparte imagined as he planted the guns of france before rebellious toulon/that he beheld in the not distant future this jewel of happiness directed by a genius which challenged the world's admira tion â€” impelled by a will that beat down or thrust aside every impedi ment he marshalled all his powers to carve a pathway to the goal thrones were demolished and crowns crushed beneath his raj-id tread dynasties vanished at his ap proach a continent's political geo graphy was the subject of constant mutation whom he would he ex alted â€” whom he would he abase â€” yet the glorious prize for which ho struggled at lodi arcola marenzo and austerlitz was substituted by i phantasy at moscow â€” an apparition at waterloo and a spectre at saint helena a single picture more and al though its fields be less sanguinary and its streams comparatively pure we shall find them shaded by a cloud ed sky through which the suu of joy but seldom breaks abdcrshman 111 one of the moorish kings of spain presided over the destinies of tho realm for fifty consecutive years lie was a noble humane justice-loving prince aud was styled the defender of the i'aitli of god so sagacious was his administration of state affairs that his reign received the appellation of the golden age of the moorish em pire but was he happy ? who would not answer in the affirmative while considering his noble qualities uf head and heart supplemented by circumstances so auspicious and encouraging listen he tells his own story : i have reigned fifty years i have carefully noted the history of each day those years include s:nd now at the end after an accurate examination of the entire time 1 fund but four teen days during which i was free from vexation and trouble let us pause here enough has been demonstrated jf after these sever al statements made from a philosoph ical standpoint â€” after these truthful portrayals from history that have been thus briefly rendered the question is asked in what then does true hap piness consist and where is its source we can only substantially repeat as sertions previously expressed and answer that it is not a spasmodic burst of enthusiasm nor a sudden exulta tion springing from a desire met or the substance of a hope realized ; nor delight temporarily secured through a pleasing novelty ; nor the resnlt of comfortable exterior circumstances nor yet the joy awakened through tho love of cherished friends though in this we find perhaps its nearestsemb iance â€” happiness in brief is the certain result of strict conformity to the will of god as furnished through his works and word its author and sup ply is the same great goad and wise being who made the human sou aud gave it its capacity to enjoy lhe path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day the southern methodists hold their general conference at nashville teu nessee in may next it meets every four years and the session lasts g n orally fur one month ifpmelbir the dead i f mu.n uivi is tombs great reduction i the pricks of marble monuments and grave-stones of every description 1 cordially invite the public generally to an inspection of m lock and work i feel justilied in iisseitiu thai my past experience under first-class woikinen in all the newest and modern styles and that tlic workmanship is equal to any of the best in the country i do not sav that my work is superior to all otliers l am reasonable will noi exaggerate in or der to accomplish a salt my endeavor is to please and givo each cnstuuiei the val ue of every dollar fl:e leave with me prices 35 to 50 per cent cheaper than eve offend in this town before call at once or send for trice lisi and de signs satisfacl ion guai ant'd or no charge the erection oi marble is the last work of respect which we pay lo the memory of depai ted friends john s hutchinson salisbury n ('.. nov i let blackmer am henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c janaar22 1879 â€” tt tijie table western n c railroad takes effect sundaj juij it issi ai 4.15 p m i'assesgeil thais akluvi leave stations akkivk utatb l isoa.ui balldburx 4 â€¢.,,-, m uqsa.ni i creek 334 1 30 1 , 3os Â»Â« si itesville 2 42 uo catawba i 1 -: ton 12 a 41 co 4 525 it s03 a t.o a.m 7 it iu 6 27 1j 607 f - 515 945 'â– 4i5p.a freight 7 7.1 v ak1uvk i.kavk stations akkivk leatk ... ! 1 " ajl:salisburj 5 00 p.m .; : j 4 0 00 a.m i'j'htrd ure t 3 4t 6 ' 2 iklmwood 315 6 56 243 ' 5c catawba 1 34 o m j a 12 :', 9 10 er iia i)9 1 â€¢ ihckorj 111 31 m ]' '' 0 i imorganton ; : 40 j - â€¢â– 'â€¢- *>'â€¢; glen alpine 9 06 jj5 j ibrldi vvuier - it ,'â€¢ ! jmati 11 ; ij it igw fort i 6 13 cm a.m henrj . :â€¢ i ! 1 i 5 50 i b50 p.ji.|t:oopi r's : 4 i â€¢>.Â« i , .,., â€¢"â€¢*"â€¢ â– "' 4 00a.3 : ikreu li bj 1 id j rundailj sundo sexcei li d a e andrews con eupi